Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-10
Monuments at Gettysburg.

syracuse In } journal.
The commission on the erection of
monuments on the field Of Gettysburg to
mark the spot occupied by New York
regir, ents in the three-days battle has laid
its report before the Legislature. An
appropriation is asked. The Commits
sioners say that in making their recon-
mendations they have followed the ex-
ample of the States which have made
similar appropriations, all of which have
made provision for separate monuments
designating the position of each regiment
and battery. There are now erected on
the Gettysburg field so regimental and
battery monuments. OF this number
Massachusetts, has 80, Pennsylvania %,
Connecticut I, New Hampshire 3, Rhode
Island 4, Indiana 6, Delaware 3, while the
state of New York, which had 81 regi-
ments and batteries in the battle, is only
represented by two regimentaI monu-
ments, both of which were paid for by
the survivors of the One Hundred and
Twenty-fOurth New York, of Orange
county, known as the "Orange Blossom"
and belonging to the Third Army Corps,
and by the One Hundredth and Fifty
seventh Regime nts, recruited in Madison
and Cortland counties. Besides the re-
gimental monuments marking the posi-
ton of the New York troops, the commits
sion recommends that sin honor of more
than 500 napeless dead who fell in the
ranks OF the New York troops at Gettys-
burg, and who are buried On the field, a
conspicuous monument should be erected
on the battlefield by the State of New
York" The estimated cost of the sever
al designs for such a monument ranged
from $4,000 to 100000. It is urged
that while the amount asked for may
seem large nevertheless it is not more
than $2952 head for the New York kill
ed and wounded In the conflict, and not
more than the aggregate bounties paid in
1864 for 200 recruits. The eighty-seven
New York regiments lost on the Battle
field 6,767 men, or one-third of the total
number of casualties. The bill provides
fo- an expense of 81 500 for each Of these
regimental monuments.
The appropriations in the bill submit
ted by the commission are: $4,000 for
the memorial structure to the memory of
the nameless dead, and S190500 for the
regimental monuments, $4,000 for Sc
curing the sites for the monuments and
avenues leading to them, and $4,000 for
the services of the necessary engineers,
surveyors, agents employees of the COM
mission. After the erection of the monu-
ments their care and custody will be given
to the Gettysburg Memorial Association
for preservation, and every three years
the Governor of the State is req uired to
have them inspected.
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